Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Some experts indeed claim it is beneficial for children to take up a foreign language at primary school. In this essay, both sides of this matter will be examined and I will give my opinion afterward.
On the one hand are people believe in the benefits of learning languages at a very young age. This belief is mainly due to the golden age of children, when students are smart and capable to acquire new knowledge. It is also shown that during this period, verbal ability developed significantly which helps children to be able to pronounce correctly the vocabularies and thus speaking fluently. Many countries have adapted bilingual; teaching in elementary school and children there can speak their second language as smoothly as their mother tongue.
On the other hand, it is also possible to make the opposing case. Still, there are undeniable drawbacks of learning languages in the elementary stage. The first weakness is the concentration of children when studying which curbs the procedure of children. Furthermore, some students have difficulties in studying their mother tongue. Therefore, it will be more difficult for them to take up another language. This could result in not able to speak neither mother tongue and other languages as well as creating misunderstanding when using those languages. For instance, in my country, most students go to 'international schools' and are not able to use their mother tongue neither understanding English, despite their fluency in speaking that second language.
In conclusion, it is possible to take up languages at the elementary stage. On balance, I, however, tend to believe children can put off learning this after having fluency in their mother tongue as the drawbacks outweigh the good points.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 217, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... concentration of children when studying which curbs the procedure of children. F...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, still, therefore, thus, well, for instance, in conclusion, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1475.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 283.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21201413428 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82458831376 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544169611307 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 451.8 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2583190265 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.3333333333 106.682146367 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8666666667 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.26666666667 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.263131301146 0.244688304435 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0893378176772 0.084324248473 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0867739923829 0.0667982634062 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182907323136 0.151304729494 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0624660372598 0.056905535591 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 217, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... concentration of children when studying which curbs the procedure of children. F...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, still, therefore, thus, well, for instance, in conclusion, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1475.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 283.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21201413428 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82458831376 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544169611307 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 451.8 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2583190265 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.3333333333 106.682146367 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8666666667 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.26666666667 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.263131301146 0.244688304435 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0893378176772 0.084324248473 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0867739923829 0.0667982634062 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182907323136 0.151304729494 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0624660372598 0.056905535591 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.